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February 26, 2016

In our latest podcast we discuss due diligence and third party oversight in emerging markets with Kevin Braine, managing director and head of Kroll’s compliance practice in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Based in London, Braine is responsible for driving forward the expansion of Kroll’s compliance services throughout the region. We talk to Braine about pressing compliance risks in the EMEA region, how compliance officers can push responsibilities onto business managers in emerging markets, and how to tackle ongoing monitoring of third parties.

February 19, 2016

In the latest edition of the Compliance Week podcast, we chat with Steven Kreit, partner with accounting firm EisnerAmper, about the firm's recent "Concerns About Risks Confronting Corporate Boards" survey. The findings of directors are worried about haven't changed much since last year, with reputation risk and cyber-security perennial causes on angst. The survey notes, however, that there is a gap between knowledge of risk and acting on it, and that certain risks fade from awareness over time.

December 21, 2015

In the latest edition of the Compliance Week podcast, we chat with Hui Wang, senior director of global risk sciences at PayPal, about security and anti-fraud efforts at the online payment processor and the company’s homegrown system for continuous risk monitoring.

November 6, 2015

In this edition of the Compliance Week podcast we discuss the state of educational programs for compliance officers with Gerald Manwah, former global head of financial crime compliance at Barclays. He is now senior director of compliance programs at the Fordham University School of Law. In October, the university began offering a master’s degree in corporate compliance that does not require a background in law.

November 3, 2015

Research by ADP, a provider of human capital management services, found that an overwhelming majority of senior finance executives say monitoring tax, employment and payment-related rule changes has become increasingly time-consuming and fraught with risk. Part of the problem is a lack of access to the real-time, consolidated compliance data needed to keep abreast of ever-changing laws. In our latest podcast ADP's Amit Jain discusses the need to mitigate the current and future compliance risks brought on by workforce globalization.

October 14, 2015

In this week's podcast, Leon Blonk, regional compliance officer, Bank of China discusses the current state of anti-money laundering compliance in the Netherlands and what companies should consider when conducting business in this part of Europe. According to transparency international, the Netherlands ranked eighth in TI’s latest Corruption Perceptions Index, which means that the country still has some work to do in dealing with corruption.

August 24, 2015

The steady rise in internal investigations stems from changes in corporate attitudes that view strong compliance processes as critical for the success of any business. As a result of the increased enforcement activities, particularly increased enforcement cooperation between foreign jurisdictions across Europe and around the world, European corporations are subjected to overlapping and often similar but not identical regulatory requirements. In our latest podcast, we talk to Tiffany Moseley, partner in Kaye Scholer’s Litigation Practice, about internal investigations and data privacy in Europe.

August 7, 2015

The Verizon 2015 PCI Report from earlier this year found that one of the most prevalent causes of compliance breakdowns with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, and a cause of breach incidents is difficulty with network firewall policy management. In our latest podcast, we talk to Jody Brazil, chief product strategist at FireMon, a Kansas-based enterprise security management company, about the state of breach prevention and PCI compliance.

July 31, 2015

July 21 was a big day for banks and the beginning of the Volcker Rule’s compliance regime. The rule, a cornerstone of the Dodd-Frank Act, prohibits proprietary trading activities at federally insured banks. In our latest podcast, we talk to Chris Scarpati, a partner in PwC’s financial regulation practice about what the deadline entailed and what’s ahead for these financial institutions.

July 28, 2015

Spain has been receiving a lot of attention recently for its corporate compliance defense. Not only did the country adopt new requirements to help root out corruption but it goes further than other countries have gone by mandating specific features that compliance programs must contain in order to qualify. In this podcast, Aaron Murphy, partner at law firm, Foley & Lardner, discusses the steps Spain has taken to embed compliance right into its statute. Listen here.